Lula Cafe

Many Chicagoans associate Logan Square with things like bars, Lula Cafe, parklike boulevards and the Illinois Centennial Monument — the eagle-topped Doric column around which swirls chaotic traffic. But the neighborhood covers a lot more ground, and nonresidents may be unaware just how far it extends west: past Pulaski Road to the Union Pacific/Northwest rail line. It's here, on the very western edge of the Logan Square neighborhood, where Sean Starr, an attorney and English professor, and his wife, Beth, a Chicago Public Schools high school English teacher, bought their first home in 2013. Now they have moved half a mile west, away from the busy heart of the Square to...